Device for cleaning and drying safety-razor blades.



C. J. KENNEDY.

DEVICE FOR CLEANING AND DRYING SAFETY RAZOR BLADES.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. I5. 1917.

Patented Oct. 15, 1918:

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 15, 1918.

Application filed October 15, 1917. Serial No. 196,644.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES J. Knxnnor, a citizen of the United States, residing at Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Cleaning and Drying Safety-Razor I Blades, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to instruments for cleaning and drying safety razor blades and has special reference to such a device by the use of which a razor blade may be cleaned and dried by a single operation.

The principal object of the invention is to produce an instrument whereby such single operation may be efliciently and conveniently accomplished.

Other objects and advantages .of the novel construction herein disclosed will appear in the further description of the invention.

Referring to the accompanying drawings formin part of this application and in which ike reference characters indicate like parts:

Figure l is an enlarged transverse sectional view through the center of one of the instruments,

Fig. 2 is a plan view of same,

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of Fig. 2,

Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view through the center of a modified form of instrument,

Fig. 5 is a plan view of Fig. 4, and

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one of thedinstruments as it would appear being use In the preferred construction, illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 6, the instrument is composed of two like pieces of sheet metal, 1 and 2, having their centermost body portions when completed of substantially rectangular form and their extreme opposite ends 3 narrower than the body portion and extending a considerable distance therebeyond. These end portions are bent arcuately and outwardly in such a manner that the outermost portions the body portions and when assembled result in the body portion of the two pieces being parallel with each other and spaced a considerable distance apart.

The ends 3 are rounded and united in any thereof are parallel with desired manner, preferably by suitable eyelet rivets or solid rivets 4: as shown.

The side edges of the body portions 1 and 2 are folded inwardly upon themselves as at 5 and then inclined downwardly and in wardly as at (i, forming a truncated V'shaped opening or channel therebetween. In each of these channels are securely held a cleaning pad consisting of a triangular shaped piece of rubber 7 the apex of which extends beyond the edge of the holding piece 6 and a drying pad consisting preferably of afelt core 8 covered by a piece of cotton cloth or the like 9, these two pads being held tightly against each other intermediate of the holding portions 6, they having been put in place prior to. the holding portions being finally shaped.

The adjacent edges of the opposed like pads are intended to slightly engage each other normally so that in passing a razor blade through the instrument for cleaning and drying purposes it will be engaged at all times, and, as is obvious, the instrument may be pinched by the holding hand during the operation to further press the blade if desired, the ends 3 having the desired resiliency for admitting of such squeezing of the instrument.

In Figs. 4 and 5 the pad holding members 10 are illustrated as being separate pieces of metal made of angular form and united by suitable rivets 11, and, in this modified form, I have illustrated the body portions 12 and 13 as each having straight parallel sides their entire length instead of having reduced end portions and which modified form may prove of cheaper construction than that illustrated in the other figures.

Various other minor modifications within the scope of the invention may be resorted to without departing from the spirit thereof.

It is understood that, in operation, the razor blade is passed through the instrument from the rubber cleaning pad' side thereof to result in the blade being first cleaned and then dried, as is evident.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Lettors Patent, is:

1. A device of the character described comprising two pieces of resilient sheet metal bent inwardly toward each other at their ends and suitably united. acleaning pad and a drying pad held adjacent each other longitudinally on the inner surfaces of the parallel portions of the pieces of .metal, whereby a razor blade, when passed between said portions, may be engaged by the pads and thus cleaned and dried.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination with a holder havin two parallel spaced body portions resiliently united at both ends, of a cleaning pad and a dryingpad carried by the inner face of each parallel portion and so positioned in relation to each other as to cooperate in cleaning and drying a razor blade when passed therebetween. 1

3. In a device of the character described, the combination with a holder having two parallel spaced body portions united at both ends, of a blade cleaning pad and a drying pad positioned close to each other and rigidly secured to the inner face of each body portion whereby when a blade is passed intermediate of the two pairs of pads, it will be first cleaned and then dried by a single operation.

4. A device of the character described comprising two pieces of elongated sheet metal united at their ends and having parallel body portions spaced apart, the side edges of said body portions being turned inwardly forming converging flanges extending from the innermost faces of the body portions, a cleaning pad and a drying pad held tightly bearing upon each other intermediate of each pair of flanges, the free edges of each pair of pads being opposite each other whereby when a razor blade is properly passed therebetween, it will be first cleaned and then dried by a single operation.

5. A device of the character described comprising two pieces of elongated sheet metal united at their ends and having parallel body portions, converging flanges eXtending inwardly from each body portion, a cleaning pad and a drying pad held tightly between each pair of flanges, one pair of pads opposite the other pair and engageable therewith whereby when a razor blade is properly passed between the two pairs of pads, it will first be cleaned and then dried by a single operation.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES-J. KENNEDY.

Witnesses:

L. C. BRONSON, S. GEO. STEVENS. 

